Substantive Labour Code, 1950, Colombia (Compensatory Holidays / Rest Days)

Substantive Labour Code 1950; Section 180, 181 and 183 (Compensatory Holidays / Rest Days)

Labour Code has provisions with regard to working on a weekly rest day and a public holiday. If a worker is engaged in work on a weekly rest day or a public holiday, he/she is given the option of a paid compensatory rest and cash compensation. A worker may choose to have a compensatory rest day instead of cash compensation. A compensatory rest can be provided in the following way: in another workday of the following week, to all the personnel of an establishment, or in turns or from noon or 01 p.m. of Sunday to noon or to the 01 p.m. of Monday.